why does violence always have to be the answer
so i saw this while playing cards against humanity and scrambled to draw it
Just walk Jalen
Damn Jalen please walk
He be ready to get tf outta there.
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Can someone show me where the male gaze is used in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman? I keep trying to thing of where it might be hiding, but I just can’t find it.
Like, take Lois’ bathtub scene, right? She’s curled up into a ball (after all that stress I don’t blame her) and the most we see of her above the water are her shoulders and collarbone area (along with her knees). Not once does the camera or Clark try to sneak a peak: they both focus on Lois’ face. We don’t even get a POV shot from behind her head to show her looking up at Clark. It would have been an easy way to show more of her bare back, but that never happens.
There’s no male gaze at play there, so where is it? Can someone tell me?
I think one might argue that the camera in the bath scene is positioned in a certain way to give the illusion that it could pane further. Also, the way Lois is position and how she moves within the tub. One can also debate that Clark did sneak a peak because he eventually hops into the tub.
A few things. In the extended cut, He gets in the tub and takes his own clothes off and the camera pans up HIS body. Not hers.
Two, he looks her in the eye the entire time. Never once does he look down.
Three, CONTEXT is everything. Clark is not just some random guy looking at her. They aren’t in public. He’s her live in PARTNER and they are in the privacy of their own home. He’s clearly welcome in that bathroom. He doesn’t look down but she is not covering herself either. She is consenting to him being there and seeing her.
Four, the context of him being welcome there changes literally everything as it’s the reverse of everything you usually see with naked women in cinema. Women are usually presented as objects but they are also taught to play hard to get and hide their sexuality. So it’s look at me but don’t touch. Tease with a sexy outfit but very rarely is real sexuality allowed. This is the total opposite. This is not a peep show. He’s her live in PARTNER and he’s allowed to be there. She wants him there. His presence is not a threat nor is she a tease.
Finally, and this cannot be overstated enough, the actress is over 40. She’s stunningly gorgeous and sexy (because hello a lot of older women give younger women a run for their $) and she is also over 40. She is not an ingenue. She is also not presented as a cougar. She is his partner and he LOVES her. He gets in with her because he LOVES her. She’s not a fetishized 25 year old paired with an older man. She’s a grown woman over 40 being desired and cherished in the privacy of her own home. This is another context that changes the entire scene.
Yeah one might argue that the camera is positioned in a certain way to give the illusion that it could pane further down, but one would be dead-was wrong.
What’s better— the thread is filled with people giving some good advice on how to respect a woman’s boundaries and how to ask what she would be okay with, publicly. Lots of trans girls thanking him for being so patient and thoughtful with his words, and lots of people cautioning him that his purpose as a boyfriend would be to keep her safe, even from his own friends and family if need be. A+ shit right here.